β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.
β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.